Shloka 67
दमयन्तीवाक्य-प्रेषणम्
Damayantī’s Message and the Dispatch of Brahmin Envoys
इति श्रीमहाभारते वनपर्वणि नलोपाख्यानपर्वणि नलविलापे सप्तषष्टितमो< ध्याय:,इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत वनपर्वके अन्तर्गत नलोपाख्यानपर्वमें नलविलापविषयक सड़सठवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ
iti śrīmahābhārate vanaparvaṇi nalopākhyānaparvaṇi nalavilāpe saptasaptatitamo 'dhyāyaḥ |
Así, en el Śrī Mahābhārata, dentro del Vana Parva, en el subepisodio llamado Nalopākhyāna, concluye el capítulo sesenta y siete—centrado en el lamento de Nala. (Es un colofón que marca el fin del capítulo, no un verso narrativo.)
बृहृदश्च उवाच
Educational Q&A
As a colophon, the line itself teaches no new doctrine; it signals closure. In context, the chapter’s theme—Nala’s lament—highlights the ethical and psychological cost of error and misfortune, and the need for endurance and self-restraint amid suffering.
The narrator Bṛhadaśva’s telling of the Nala episode reaches the end of the sixty-seventh chapter, specifically the portion dealing with Nala’s lament; the text marks this completion formally.